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Impressive numbers, but isn't the competition much stronger now as well? Feels like there's 2-3 well organised sprint trains at least now, a few years ago HTC was way ahead of all others in terms of organisation and plan
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Hasn’t Cavendish since about 2015 mostly been about using his acceleration over pure watts?
He’s the wiliest of all of them these days and has Morkov dropping him off to perfection. Imagine if he breaks the records on the champs elysees this year.
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Quote from Cav's coach back in April
https://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/mark-cavendishs-sprint-data-is-better-now-than-6-years-ago-his-coach-says/
However, Anastopoulos has insisted Cavendish’s sprint is superior now than it was six years ago.
“We can see now that he has a slightly better peak power and the duration of his sprint is better now than previously,” he said of 2021 data compared to 2015.
“So now he can also hold his sprint for a longer period of time than previously,”